Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1789

  • Giovanni Battista Nini, Italian, 1717-1786

Terracotta

  • Overall: 15/16 × 5 11/16 inches (2.4 × 14.4 cm)

Gift of J. Patrice Marandel in memory of Mrs. Alvan Macauley, Jr.

F1986.123

On View

  • Decorative Arts

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Inscribed, across the bottom of the portrait figure: I.B.NINI.F

Von Kalckreuth (Berlin, Germany)

J. Patrice Marandel (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1986-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Storelli, M. Jean Baptiste Nini. Tours, 1896, pp. 147-148, no. XC. Forrer, L. Biographical Dictionary of Medallists. London, 1909, vol. 4, p. 273. Lami, S. Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'ecole francaise au dix-huitieme siecle, 2 vols. Paris, 1910-1911, vol. 2, p. 195. Cerboni Baiardi, A. and B. Sibille. Giovan Battista Nini. Da Urbino alle rive della Loira. Paesaggi e volti europi. Urbino, 2001, pp. 154-160, nos. 40-42. Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2002, 2 vols., II, cat. 208.

Giovanni Battista Nini, Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1789, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of J. Patrice Marandel in memory of Mrs. Alvan Macauley, Jr., F1986.123.